Vol 71 Issue 15

It is the Reformed doctrine of the last things that the last days are a time of departure from the faith by many and a time of persecution of the true church by a wicked world. Apostasy and persecution characterize the entire age from Christ’s ascension to His second coming. They increase and intensify at the very end in connection with the coming of the Antichrist and the establishment of the universal kingdom of the beast. The Reformed faith repudiates the notion that the last days hold the prospect of the conversion of the majority of the human race so...

Rev. Hanko is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. I Peter 4:10 Manifold grace! Our God is the God of all grace. He is infinitely glorious in all His divine perfections, eternally blessed in the intimacy of His covenant life as three Persons within the one divine Being. He is the God of all grace, beautiful, adorable, ever glorious in His majesty. He who called the things that were not as though they were...